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Florida\u2019s Kelvin Cheruiyot, left, during the SEC Cross Country Championships at Cherokee Farm Cross Country Course last Friday. [Randy Sartin-Imagn Images]<\/p>\nSix Florida cross country runners enjoyed the fruits of their labor Friday by earning All-SEC honors after the women won the team title and freshman Kelvin Cheruiyot won the men\u2019s individual trophy at Cherokee Farms Cross Country Course in Knoxville, Tenn.<\/p>\n
Florida\u2019s Kelvin Cheruiyot, left, during the SEC Cross Country Championships at Cherokee Farm Cross Country Course last Friday. [Randy Sartin-Imagn Images]<\/p>\n
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Cheruiyot<\/a> continued his remarkable season by being named to the All-SEC first team and All-SEC Freshmen team moments after capturing the men\u2019s race. Cheruiyot claimed the 8k title with a time of 23:08.26, while Auburn\u2019s Nickson Chebii was second in 23:11.47 and Arkansas\u2019 Timothy Chesondin was third in 23:14.80.<\/p>\n Cheruiyot is the fourth Gator in program history to win the individual title and the first in 42 years.<\/p>\n The Florida men\u2019s team finished 11th behind champion Alabama.<\/p>\n \u00a0There were also two other Florida freshmen who had good outings: Oussama Alloui placed 44th and Jonathan Leon finished 49th.<\/p>\n Women<\/p>\n No. 3-ranked Florida, with 45 points, won the meet for the second time in three years and the eighth time overall.<\/p>\n Four Gators placed inside the top 10: Hilda Olemomoi, Tia Wilson, Judy Chepkoech and freshman Desma Chepkoech, who were also named All-SEC. Reagan Gilmore made the All-SEC third team and Desma Chepkoech made All-SEC Freshman team.<\/p>\n Judy Chepkoech and Olemomoi earned first-team honors after placing inside the top 7. This marks the fourth consecutive season where a UF women\u2019s runner made an All-SEC team and it was Olemomoi\u2019s second consecutive season making the first team.<\/p>\n Looking Ahead<\/p>\n The Gators now have their sights on the national postseason starting with a trip to the NCAA South Regional on Nov. 14 in Huntsville, Ala.<\/p>\n Category: Gator Sports<\/a>, Gators Cross Country<\/a>, NCAA<\/a>, SEC<\/a>, University of Florida<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six Florida cross country runners enjoyed the fruits of their labor Friday by earning All-SEC honors after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8944,23264,28,30,29,3111,23265,23266,23267,3112,62,23268,2512,23269],"class_list":["post-33167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-cross-country","tag-desma-chepkoech","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gators","tag-hilda-olemomoi","tag-judy-chepkoech","tag-kelvin-cheruiyot","tag-not-latest","tag-sec","tag-tia-wilson","tag-university-of-florida","tag-womens-cross-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}